Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The next Tory target was the throne speech, the government's statement of policy. The speech hinted at tax cuts, promised bigger baby bonuses for large families and a royal commission to study national cultural development.
George Drew called the speech "inadequate." Taxes, he said, should have been cut long ago. The proposed commission on culture was a device for stalling on such problems as television and government-owned radio. For an hour and 45 minutes he lectured the Liberals on the faults of centralizing power...
Radioactive isotopes are taking jobs in peacetime industry. Last week the California Research Corp. (a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California) and the Atomic Energy Commission told now radioactive piston rings are being used to test the performance of lubricating oil.
Atomic-age man had better learn, and quickly, how to live with radiation. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission called a conference in Washington of sanitary engineers and sewage and water supply experts from all over the U.S. There is no reason to get panicky, the AEC said in its...
Like a doting grandfather who has fed the youngsters too much candy, the Interstate Commerce Commission was getting alarmed at its own generosity to U.S. railroads. Since war's end, it had given them six freight-rate boosts. Yet freight revenues were declining; in the first half of January...